This book was originally published in 1909 by Longmans, Green, and Co. The ten chapters were prepared for the L. P. Stones Lectures 1908-09 in Princeton Theological Seminary. But only six lectures (first seven chapters in the book) were delivered. This book was also published in Dutch and in German…
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Book Review: The Holy Spirit by Sinclair Ferguson
This work on the Holy Spirit was published in 1996 by IVP (paperback). It is is part of the Contours of Christian Theology (with a total of 9 volumes of different topics, series editor Gerald L. Bray). Ferguson’s writing style is clear, precise, exegetical, and pastoral. He is firm on…
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Book Review: The Joy of Hearing by Schreiner
Thomas R. Schreiner’s book, The Joy of Hearing, as the subtitle indicates, is A Theology of the Book of Revelation (Crossway, 2021, paperback). This is part of the New Testament Theology Series edited by Schreiner and Rosner and published by Crossway. Schreiner has worked on several commentaries on Revelation, which…
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Book Review: The Art of Biblical Narrative
Robert Alter is a prominent linguist and Hebrew scholar. He has written many books on the Hebrew Bible as literature and completed his own translation several years ago. For Christians, his contribution to the study of OT (and indirectly of NT) is to raise the awareness of Scripture as an…
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Theology as Approximation of God’s Revelation
What is theology? What is a Christian doing when he is making a theological statement? How do we define man’s position and task in light of the God-man relationship as defined in Scripture? Waves after waves of attacks from liberalism and secularism have forced many to hold a rigid view…
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The Squandering Dictator of Totalitarianism
The most common error in writing history is being simplistic, and this temptation is especially strong when the writer happens to be (and often is) the victor of history. Not surprisingly, the US dominated narrative on the collapse of USSR is one uncomplicated slogan “we fought and we won”. As…